Help us not be lazy as we battle sin

🛐 Daily Prayer: "Often, though busy in the world we become spiritually idle.”

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SpurgeonBooks
January 02, 2025

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DAILY PRAYER (BY SPURGEON)

We lament that in the body of this death there is much that we abhor. We are tempted to laziness at times, and though busy in the world we become spiritually idle. Also, we are tempted to envy others, because they excel us, and we mourn to confess the meanness of our spirit in this matter; and also we have to lament our pride. We have nothing to be proud of; the lowest place is ours; but Lord, we often conceive ourselves to be something when we are nothing.

We pray that you would forgive all these vices of our nature; but at the same time kill them, for we hate ourselves to think we should fall into such evils.

Amen.

VERSE OF THE DAY (COMMENTARY BY SPURGEON)

“So then, just as you have received Christ Jesus as Lord, continue to walk in him, being rooted and built up in him and established in the faith, just as you were taught, and overflowing with gratitude.” (Colossians 2:6–7)

Take a living hold of Christ as a tree does of the soil. Be also built up in him; as a building settles down upon the foundation, so do you settle down upon Christ. When a man is established in the truth that he knows, and rejoices in what he has already received, he will not go away from it.

PRAY FOR THE NATIONS

This week, we’re praying for the Lao Lom of Thailand.

Thailand enjoys great religious freedom. The gospel can spread freely.

Thank God for allowing true religious freedom in Thailand; pray that his true worship would spread.

RECOMMENDED RESOURCE

How God’s grace helps you grow

As you make plans to fight sin, do not slide into self-reliance. God saved you by grace, and he is going to help you grow by grace too.

We ask God to help us grow in holiness, because we know that God’s grace doesn’t just save us from sin, it also gives us the power that we need to slay sin. The work of growing in godliness is a work of cooperation between us and God’s grace.

One of my all-time favorite books is The Discipline of Grace by Jerry Bridges. This book explains how God’s grace empowers Christians to slay sin and grow in godliness. It is one of the helpful, practical, and encouraging books that I have ever read! If you want to grow in godliness, start with The Discipline of Grace.